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Tonight, it will remain mostly cloudy, with a few spots of light rain around.

It will be a much milder night under mostly cloudy skies with lowest temperatures from 6C to 9C (43F to 48F).

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Police were called to the Belle Vue area of Carlisle earlier today after a man died unexpectedly

Officers say they have no reason to be suspicious about circumstances.

A man's been flown to hospital after being reportedly injured by a bull near Penrith.

The Great North Air Ambulance says its critical care team was sent to Clifton at 10:40 this morning.

The man, whose injuries are believed to be serious, was treated by paramedics and a doctor, before a 25-minute flight to hospital.

Carlisle United midfielder Brennan Dickenson contracted Coronavirus while getting treatment for his hamstring injury at the national football centre, at St Georges Park.

It's an added setback for the 27 year-old, who's been injured since his summer move to the club, and for the United head coach Chris Beech.

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Quote Message: He's back now and doing really well, but it put him back a couple of weeks, he's had to do things the right way." from Chris Beech

He's back now and doing really well, but it put him back a couple of weeks, he's had to do things the right way."

Police Federation representatives in Cumbria say officers will see a pay freeze, being proposed by the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, as a "'betrayal"

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Jamie McTear, secretary of the Cumbria branch, said: “After being praised by the Government for their hard work over the past nine months, for public sector workers to hear the news of a pay freeze is a shocking way to repay that commitment.”

He said officers had seen an increase in assaults, with some attackers using the threat of Covid-19 and spitting.

Quote Message: Police officers and other public sector workers have been at the forefront of the fight against this pandemic." from Jamie McTear

Police officers and other public sector workers have been at the forefront of the fight against this pandemic."

One of BBC Radio Cumbria's most experienced journalists is working his final day before retiring.

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Martin Lewes, seen here at the Westmorland County Show, started working for the BBC in Cumbria in 1988, and reported on events including a major strike at what was then the VSEL shipyard in Barrow, the Lockerbie atrocity, and the foot and mouth epidemic.

For most of his career he was BBC Radio Cumbria's reporter in Kendal, where he covered both local and national news within 20 miles or so of the town, a job he describes as "being paid to drive around the Lake District talking to interesting people".

He worked on two assignments training journalists from former communist dictatorships in Russia and Bosnia, and for the past five years has been the writer for this news feed.

Quote Message: I've loved almost every minute and it would not have been the same without the listeners, the readers and thousands of people I interviewed over the years, so I owe you all thanks for a job that at its best was like a hobby with good friends."

I've loved almost every minute and it would not have been the same without the listeners, the readers and thousands of people I interviewed over the years, so I owe you all thanks for a job that at its best was like a hobby with good friends."

The leading Cumbrian local politician James Airey has announced he is retiring from politics to work for the National Union of Farmers.

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Councillor Airey served on the county, district and Ulverston town councils, and fought the Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency for a seat in Parliament at the last election.

Politicians, including from political parties, were quick with best wishes.

This afternoon will be mostly dull, damp and misty with rain and drizzle at times.

However, the rain will become patchy and light later on, with a brisk south-westerly breeze and highest temperatures from 9C to 12C (48F to 54F).

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A new coronavirus test centre opens today in Penrith.

Appointments will be available daily between 08:00 and 20:00, at the Sandgate Car Park.

There'll be additional support for vulnerable people and those with disabilities.

A Cumbrian war veteran has been recalling his involvement in the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals, which started 75 years ago today.

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Matt McKinnon-Pattison, who now lives in Penrith, was sent to Germany in 1945 to gather testimonies for the trials from witnesses including some who had survived concentration camps.

He heard many harrowing stories and at the end, when invited to witness the execution of some of the war criminals, he said he would do it only if ordered, because to volunteer "would make me as bad as them".

• Temperature at 3,000ft: Around 6C to 7C (43F 45F)
• Winds: South-westerly in the morning veering to westerly in the afternoon, with gusts to 55 mph on eastern fells, gusts to 45 mph on western fells
• Cloud: Extensive cover with bases around 1,000ft to 1,640ft (300m to 500m) for much of the day
• Weather: Cloudy with spells of rain, heavy at times in the morning, with a few lingering showers in the afternoon
• Visibility: Poor or very poor in low cloud and rain in the morning then increasing to moderate below 1,600ft (500m) later in the afternoon

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This photo of Bassenthwaite is nothing like today's weather forecast, but it is a stunning view from Barrow Fell, from one of our most regular contributors, Joe Hewer.

Our thanks to him, and if you have a photo you think might be worth sharing, you can email it to us or send it via Twitter.

A very rare lichen with one of its last strongholds on an oak in the Lake District is going to be carefully transplanted after the tree was blown down.

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April Windle (pictured), one of the specialist staff lifting the lichen to replant it on dozens of trees in the valley, said: “Lichens are such amazing lifeforms and play such a fundamental role within these woods."

The lungwort used to be widespread, but because of air pollution and other changes it is now only found in a few places in Britain.

It was feared the lichen would be lost if the tree was allowed to rot and the operation is the largest translocation, as it's called, ever carried out for the species.

A system meaning drivers complaining about potholes to Cumbria's highways engineers sometimes have their message bounced back saying they are contacting the wrong agency is being reviewed to make it less complicated, a meeting in Barrow was told.

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Councillor Ben Shirley, told a meeting of Cumbria County Council’s Barrow local committee that one resident reporting a hole was told that it was for Highways England to repair that one and not the council.

Angela Jones, a county council director, said everyone was dissatisfied with the current system of automated responses: "We hope the new system will direct the public straight to the right department so they do not have to keep going back and forth all the time with the same complaint.”

• The budget to fix potholes in Barrow for the next year will be £742,015.

Today will be cloudy and wet, but much of the rain will be light.

The rain will turn increasingly light and patchy this afternoon.

Temperatures between 9C to 11C (48F to 52F).

You can check the latest forecast for where you live, by searching for your location here.

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